America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due

What Should Governments Do?Ban certain activities outright:- No more new cars with internal combustion enginesCreate a carbon tax:- Ideally $100/ton- Pay if you emit, earn if you drawdownFund basic research:- Nuclear fusion- GeoengineeringFunde Prizes:- Best drawdown solution

Bill McKibben has put some very precise numbers on our remaining carbon budget. You’re saying we’re going to need to safeguard some portion of that budget for some of these critical transitional steps? Gopal: We need to be very smart about how we use our carbon budget. We should absolutely not be expending any fossil energy exploring for more fossi

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I take to heart Tim Garrett’s excellent work,7 indicating that only the collapse of industrial civilization will prevent runaway climate change. And there are many, many other good reasons to terminate this set of living arrangements. According to a United Nations report from August 2010, we’re driving to extinction 150 to 200 species every day. Th

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will explain how Americans in some of the most populated regions of the country have put themselves at particular risk, exposing a pattern of shortsighted policies that encouraged people to settle in vulnerable parts of the continent. It will show how decades of economic policies have favored some Americans over others, polarizing the country furth

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